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The diseased have ye not strengthened, neither have ye healed that which was sick, neither have ye bound up that which was broken, neither have ye brought again that which was driven away, neither have ye sought that which was lost; but with force and with cruelty have ye ruled them.
Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity, and is polluted with blood.
How much then is a man better than a sheep? Wherefore it is lawful to do well on the sabbath days.
And if it be not so now, who will make me a liar, and make my speech nothing worth?
Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.
And there stood up one of them named Agabus, and signified by the Spirit that there should be great dearth throughout all the world: which came to pass in the days of Claudius Caesar.
If mine heart have been deceived by a woman, or if I have laid wait at my neighbour's door;
And blessed be the most high God, which hath delivered thine enemies into thy hand. And he gave him tithes of all.
So those servants went out into the highways, and gathered together all as many as they found, both bad and good: and the wedding was furnished with guests.
And saying, Sirs, why do ye these things? We also are men of like passions with you, and preach unto you that ye should turn from these vanities unto the living God, which made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and all things that are therein:
And the families of the children of Kohath, the Levites which remained of the children of Kohath, even they had the cities of their lot out of the tribe of Ephraim.
Helez the Paltite, Ira the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite,
Uriah the Hittite, Zabad the son of Ahlai,
This shall they have for their pride, because they have reproached and magnified themselves against the people of the LORD of hosts.
Then they came to Zerubbabel, and to the chief of the fathers, and said unto them, Let us build with you: for we seek your God, as ye do; and we do sacrifice unto him since the days of Esar-haddon king of Assur, which brought us up hither.
What man soever of the seed of Aaron is a leper, or hath a running issue; he shall not eat of the holy things, until he be clean. And whoso toucheth any thing that is unclean by the dead, or a man whose seed goeth from him;
The LORD shall bring a nation against thee from far, from the end of the earth, as swift as the eagle flieth; a nation whose tongue thou shalt not understand;
The LORD is good to all: and his tender mercies are over all his works.
Thou hast consulted shame to thy house by cutting off many people, and hast sinned against thy soul.
And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.
And the man waxed great, and went forward, and grew until he became very great:
For when ye offer your gifts, when ye make your sons to pass through the fire, ye pollute yourselves with all your idols, even unto this day: and shall I be enquired of by you, O house of Israel? As I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will not be enquired of by you.
And it shall come to pass, that when any shall yet prophesy, then his father and his mother that begat him shall say unto him, Thou shalt not live; for thou speakest lies in the name of the LORD: and his father and his mother that begat him shall thrust him through when he prophesieth.
And thou shalt put some of thine honour upon him, that all the congregation of the children of Israel may be obedient.
